I have been in the throws of packing and purging.  I rented one of those dumpster bins. I got rid of like everything.  Beds, shelves, wood, trash,  desks, lights, chairs….gone!  I have to say the actual throwing away of things was very therapeutic.  But the destruction of some of these things was beyond therapeutic.  I’m sure there is a term, but it was amazing!  Something about smashing the hell out of things with a hammer and then getting to throw it away.  It was an amazing experience.  See…channeling my stress….

The movers are scheduled, the truck is scheduled, the disassembling of the pool table is scheduled.  I’m spending the next week packing the remainder of the stuff in the house.  I only have like 17 days so I have to go to like minimum.  I have to stop being afraid to just pack it up!  No one else is going to do it so… All the packing materials came today.  So no excuses at all.  Tomorrow I start in the loft and I’m just going to work my way around.  Then I have to organize the garage!  So I am going to be crazy busy.

Birthday was kind of a success.  Even though Pete was not here….he still sent me a birthday present. (the computer was supposed to be the birthmas present but…)  The kids came over and totally surprised me with the necklace I wanted.  I honestly didn’t think he would really get it.  So I was kind of in shock!  We did Christmas too.  That was fun.  Then we ate a lot of snack food, tiramisu, cannolis, almond amaretto cake, and tiramisu gelato.  It was pretty amazing.

Broke down and finally gave up my Galaxy today.  It was driving me crazy.  I am going to give this Windows Lumina 950 a shot.  See how that works out.  It’s very different than what I’m used to.  But I’m going to give it a shot.  I don’t want to get another Galaxy because it has its own issues.  I refuse to have another iPhone.  So I’m running out of options.  Pete hates his LG, but Erik loves his Nokia.  I’m totally going to live on the edge! (no pun intended)  The one thing I do wish is that it had the same apps as the desktop version.  But there was a time Andriod didn’t have as many as Apple.  So who knows.  It could be a major contender in a few years!  I just can’t do Galaxy for the same reason I won’t do iPhone.  They are out of control.  Galaxy is the iPhone of the android world in my mind.  They are too commercialized.  I’ve never been one to go along with the crowd!  Galaxy wasn’t real popular when I switched from the iPhone…now look what happened!  So maybe I can make the Windows phone the next big thing!

I’m still playing with it.  Some things I really like.  Some things I think I just have to get used to.  I mean I’ve had an Andriod for quite a few years, and I really just wanted a whole new feel and experience.  Well, I’m getting that!  But I’m finding it amazing how hard it is to cross over from Google to Windows.  There are some things that work…but others that don’t.  So we’ll see if they give in and give access to some google apps (Hangouts, Chrome….why Windows 10 hates Chrome so much…)  Well…I’ll give this a couple years and see how it goes.  I do have to say, the actual phone works a lot better!  I talked to Pete and with my Galaxy he was all garbled and I couldn’t never really hear him…very frustrating.  But with the Windows phone….didn’t have that problem.  So that was nice.  And the camera is kind of cool.  Definitely pros and cons.